| Sir George Barrow (2d bart.) - Sri Lanka - 1857 - 220 pages
...Knox observes, that there is plenty of cotton growing in their own grounds, sufficient to make them good and strong cloth for their own use, and also...people of the uplands, where cotton is not so plenty, if the people were but laborious and industrious; but that they are not. said, in a certain measure,... | |
| Edward Arber - English literature - 1877 - 668 pages
...teeth. Cotton, of which there is good plenty, growing in their own grounds : sufficient to make them good and strong cloth for their own use, and also...the people of the uplands, where cotton is not so plentiful. All these things the land affords, and might do it in much greater quantity; if the people... | |
| Thomas Seccombe - Voyages and travels - 1903 - 482 pages
...teeth. Cotton, of which there is good plenty, growing in their own grounds : sufficient to make them good and strong cloth for their own use, and also...the people of the uplands, where cotton is not so plentiful. All these things the land affords, and might do it in much greater quantity; if the people... | |
| Donald Obeyesekere - Sri Lanka - 1999 - 364 pages
...teeth and cotton ; of which there is good plenty growing in their own grounds, sufficient to make them good and strong cloth for their own use, and also to sell to the people of the Uplands, where cotton Ls not so plenty." With regard to precious stones, Knox says : — " In this Island there are several... | |
| Robert Knox - British - 2004 - 122 pages
...teeth and cotton ; of which there is good plenty growing in their own grounds, sufficient to make them good and strong cloth for their own use, and also...people were but laborious and industrious : but that thev are not , 1 «/ for the Chingulays are naturally a people given to sloth and laziness ; if they... | |
| Robert Knox - Sri Lanka - 2004 - 166 pages
...teeth. Cotton, of which there is good plenty, growing in their own grounds : sufficient to make them good and strong cloth for their own use, and also...the people of the uplands, where cotton is not so plentiful. All these things the land affords, and might do it in much greater quantity; if the people... | |
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